Buster Keaton who was born in 1895 and certainly has childhood memories of what we called The Gay Nineties, stars in this Twilight Zone salute to that era. Movies were just invented and they spoke in the language of pantomime and when we meet Buster he's a scientist of sorts working on some Rube Goldberg like contraption, a time traveling helmet.
By God the thing works though and he's soon in 1961 where he runs into another scientist played by Stanley Adams who kind of attaches himself to Keaton as they figure out a way to repair his helmet and take him back from whence he came.
It's not a great Twilight Zone episode, but it certainly displays Buster Keaton's amazing talents and it shows why he was one of the great comedy stars of the silent screen. Later on when movies began to talk and Keaton had that wonderful monotone sonorous voice that went right into his persona so well. But then Keaton was just a character player albeit a good one.
Fans of the great stone face will like this Twilight Zone story.